PipemanRadio Interviews Pythonic

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0:53 This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with our next guest, who has some killer new music. So let's welcome to the show. Vincent from Pythonic. How are you? I'm doing good. How are you doing today? I'm doing pretty good, you know, although I am recuperating. I just got back from Rock Oklahoma, which I'm not sure if you're familiar with that since you're up in Canada, but it's it's a huge camping rock festival in the middle of nowhere, Oklahoma. Oh wow. And it's pretty wild because you know, the campgrounds, the shenanigans that go on in campground are beyond anything I've seen at any other music festival.

1:41 It's that crazy over there. Okay, Well, let's put it this way. They have they have a strip club campsite and then they have this other campsite called bus boobs and buttholes. Okay, So if that doesn't give you an idea of what goes on after the you know, headliner goes off, I don't know what will. What bands did you see? Do you see any good bands there? Yeah? I didn't get to see all the ones I want to because of course I was doing radio coverage. I go on tour and do radio coverage at all these festivals, so I was backstage doing their reviews. But you know, I did get to catch Slipknot. They were the headliner Sunday night, and that was pretty badass. And you know what they did is it's their twenty fifth anniversary of the first album, so they basically played no music that was written after nineteen ninety nine.

2:40 That that would actually be such an amazing Slipnot show to see. No doubt, because you know, because they play all the festivals, I could actually sometimes like tell you the whole set list and what's going to be said in between songs. So for me, that was pretty badass because that I've been seeing them since nineteen ninety nine, and I never saw some of the songs performed that were performed that night. Oh that's amazing. I actually only seen Slipping Off for the first time. I think it was last year, but it was the first time they came to Saskatoon in thirteen years. So for me, like the time before where they would have been there, like I would have been like ten years old, so like that, it doesn't really check out too much.

3:25 But yeah, Allowed and their kids band was playing clown and Corey's sons have a band called ven Dead Yeah, and they're really really good and they played there as well that same day. Yeah, it's crazy all these like, you know, high profile bands, all their kids are starting bands. Now would I think we just had Metallica's kids band like James Hetfield. Yeah, Yeahskatoon Yeah, Hammerhead, uh no, the Bastard Dane or I'm oh yeah, yeah, Bastard and him is one of the other kids. And then there's a there's also a band with both of Laura's kids.

4:10 Okay, I didn't even realize it went that far. Yeah, I mean I've actually interviewed like almost all the kids and it's wild to me. Because when I was younger, you know, it didn't work out that way. You went into band the Rebel not because your parents did it and certainly didn't have awhere near. That is the difference. Today, you have awhere near the same kind of taste in music because the way metal has progressed. Like when I went, I'm from the eighties medal, so you know, I was there for the first Metallica show and so it's a trip to interview in their kids.

4:54 Oh yeah, that'd be crazy, Yeah, going the whole being there for like the whole timeline pretty much. Like exactly. And I think that I think it's on us. Gen x Er is like me that just trained our kids, right. Like you can see where the where the holes are, how much you've got to be practicing, how much effort you have to be putting in to like get what you need out of the out of your music and just playing you. Know, yeah exactly. And I think also, I mean going on tour with your parents, I think I think it gets to a point where that's what you know, so like you kind of slip into that because you're used to being on the road. Yeah, it be kind of weird to not be on the road, you know what I mean. Yeah, So tell us about you guys, Like, how would you without a genre? How would you describe your music to our listeners.

5:59 I mean, we're kind of you know, like we're metal, but we kind of like to try and dip our toes into different subgenres. We we don't like like we kind of have a sound, but I like to call our sound we're pythonic, you know, we don't we don't try to fit a certain genre definitely. We kind of fall into some categories a little bit more often, like the groove metal side. A lot of people tend to like throw us into there, which checks out a lot of people in the band. We have like a lot of history with listening to Pantera and Lamb of God and Devil Driver. It's like a lot of really tried and true like groove metal bands. But you know, like we just like to have fun. Like we kind of get together and just one person kind of brings up some of the some of the like riffs or something, and then we just build off of their Like there's no one person writing all the music, So I think that helps us kind of have like a more original sounding sound.

7:01 I think that's pretty cool too, because I think about it a lot of times when you have these bands and there's like one person writing all the music. Yeah, I don't know. If I were in a band, I wouldn't want to just sit back and not have input. Yeah No, And like that's like some of the new members we have. So we have Morgan and Jaden that just joined within the last year here. I don't think they've even been in the band for a full year. But like Morgan, like his biggest thing is he's been He's like he's like I've been in eight other bands, like nothing's been fitting. But like he joined our band and we're like he's like, well, what do you want me to play on bass? And I'm like, well, this is what I'm playing on guitar. Like whatever you think is going to fit in to make it sound better, you know, Like I'm not given like no, you have to play the roots or you have to play this Like no, like whatever you think is going to add to the song and make it sound good, Like that's what I want you playing.

7:55 And I think that makes sense because like if you're a instruments of guitar, let's say, yeah, that doesn't and that means your expertise is in the guitar. It's not in the drums, it's not in the bass exactly. So you want to get the people that that's their expertise, because I think they can take it farther. You know, you know a little bit about it, but I think the person that does it every day, they can take it to a farther place. Yeah, And I noticed that right away when I first started this band with drummers. I'm like, some of these drummers, they they will write stuff that is pushing themselves and they will keep pushing themselves. And that's why I'm like, that's why I like leaving it open, because then it gives because if somebody's just writing it all themselves, like they might get stuck in a rut and they aren't writing as like crazy of drum parts or you know, for like all their songs and it starts to sound all the same. But a lot of these drummers like they want to be like they want to be like the Rev. Like there's so many drummers in Saskatoon, Like the Rev is there big you know God Send, which he is an amazing drummer, Like you can't disparage any of that like original even Sevenfold stuff, like they really had something there. But yeah, like the fact that like these musicians just want to push themselves, and like you get one person writing everything and they're just they're not going to push themselves because they like they get comfortable, you.

9:20 Know, totally. And I also think too that putting more opinions into the pot is what makes for long lasting music, like because you know you're gonna you're probably different people, just like listeners are different people, so you kind of can appeal to a much larger audience. Yeah, exactly, Like I honestly, like I would even say our stuff right now, like what we're releasing right now with this first EP. These are a lot of songs that we've had written for probably like six or seven years, like we've we just haven't had the funds kind of po pool together or like the resources to really get something recorded. It took having to have our one drummer leave and get a new drummer in to really get stuff recorded. Because the new drummer we had at the time, he had a recording studio and he was very about like we just wanted to be on a lot of other people's recordings because he's trying to push his music careers.

10:24 So that really helped us out. And he like Jordan Gall like, I cannot thank him enough for how much he put into this first EP. Nice and yeah that's another thing too. Okay, So if you're a musician, I think it's much easier to play the stuff you write in place that somebody else's. Right, it's more authentic, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, Like I even noticed within the band, like songs that I write that I haven't played in like say like a few months or something. I'm just like bring them back to kind of try and practice them. I can play immediately, but in a song that somebody else started and then I'm trying to bring it back after a couple of months and I'm like, oh man, what was that riff? Again? Like, yeah, like, the stuff a person writes themselves always just like sticks in a lot harder.

11:10 So let's talk about the new single Pills, because that's a big thing of mine. I am like so anti pills, and yeah, I've seen so many people in my life from like being a kid till now that the destruction that pills does. Yet it's acceptable, So people don't even been realized un till it's too late. Yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of a lot of what the song talks about. You know, there's also the you know, the pills is also like another metaphor for kind of like capitalism, because like that's where all of the pills come from. Are like these capitalist companies trying to pretty much cash in on your sickness and your problems. And yeah, like the pills epidemic, like especially like a lot of problems in North America. It is absolutely insane the stuff that gets prescribed to people. I remember one time myself, I went into the er in Saskatoon here, I wasn't feeling good. They couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.

12:18 They literally sent me out of the hospital with a prescription to morphine. So I'm like, well, that seems a little excessive. Pretty sure there was a couple of steps you could have went before giving me morphine. But like knowing what's going on, Yeah. No, like they're not, Like it's so visible that these doctors are getting kickbacks from the pills they're prescribing, because they're prescribing them all the time, and so willy nilly and it's it shouldn't be like that. It shouldn't be like that at all. Well, what's interesting is this all came out of the war on drugs, Like the when the war on drugs started, that's when this started. Yeah, And it's you know, like I mean, there's so many other ways that you could do things that don't harm your body, that can help your body. And it has become sad that doctors don't even have us say anymore. It's big pharma and the insurance companies that say what goes on in healthcare, and I think it should be the doctors.

13:23 Yeah, it's like the prescriptions are bad, Like I know, mental health prescriptions is another huge one. A lot of people will just like that you come in, Oh you have depression anxiety, they don't give you anybody to talk to first. A lot of people just need somebody to talk to. Yeah. And if we could just, like as like a race, a human race, just set something up where people can just talk about their problems better, I think we could all like come out of this more on top than where we are right now with just here's pills for it, here's pills for it. Like that's that's what we're you know, we want to open up this conversation to like let people know, like these are problems, and like if you don't see it, like we're going to bring it to your attention.

14:08 I love it. I love it because if the pills really helped, then the problem wouldn't be getting worse, and it keeps getting dramatically worse. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yep, Well. I love that. Are you know, there's a lot of people out there that say, well, or they should just stick to making music, but I say that's bullshit. If you that's the whole point of making music is so you can express yourself and if it can help others, that's just a bonus. So exactly, I love that you're doing that because it is a big issue and I think people need to hear it and they can relate to it themselves. And you know, if we could all unite together against these people trying to poison us, then maybe we can make a difference.

14:53 Exactly. Yeah, there there just needs to be some very fundamental changes at a lot of government levels and a lot of places like that is just the unfortunate reality. Like you look back a lot of the laws that are made in a lot of these countries right now, they're reaching hundreds of years old, and it's like, hey, you guys, Like I know, back in like two thousand and eight, there was a law legal in uh a city in Saskatchewan here and they you could legally go around with a horse drawn carriage and like shooting people. Like that was just the whole thing. Yeah, but it's like, you know, and like nobody's like revisiting these laws that are like available. Yeah, it's like it's a whole thing.

15:34 Yeah, you know, there are like a ton of laws on the books. They're ancient, you know, and people ignore it because it's like, well, it's not really enforced, but as long as they're on the books, they can be enforced at some point. And I mean, like they're in jock. There are people are indoctrinated to thinking that it's okay, that these are okay because they've just been there so long. But that's that's not the case. Not So, how do people reach out to you on socials on the web? How they get the new album on the twenty seventh it drops. I don't know if there's any pre saves or anything, but tell us all the dats.

16:16 We don't really have much for like pre sings, but we got everything going up on pretty much anything streaming related. We will be on there. We've got Facebook, Instagram, our YouTube or YouTube. We got some pretty cool live shows that people should check out. We performed very well live. Love it because that's the way it should be exactly. And so is your handle on all the socials just Pythonic or most of. Them, it's going to be Pythonic band just because since Pythonic has a root in the as a coding language, it kind of gets harder to find if you don't put the. Band in no doubt, well anything else. You want to let the listeners know that they we having covered.

17:02 You know, just keep doing what you're doing. Push to be better every single day. You know. Nice, I love it and your music's badass. Everybody's got to check it out. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Main, thanks for having us on. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm w for CUI Radio.